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PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.

The most prominent political tenet of
the Anglican church during the
seventeenth century, was the doctrine
of passive obedience or absolute non
resistance. Bishop Sanderson, one of
the most approved writer's of the
established church, wrote: mo con-
iuncture of circumstances whatever can
make that expedient to be done at any
time that is of itself, and in The kind.
unlawful. For man to take up arms
offensive or defensive against afawful
sovereign, being thing in its nature
simply and de toto geaere unlawful,
may not be done by any man, at any
time, in any case, upon any color or
pretense whatever" With scrupulous
regard to consistency, the Primste
eight bishops, and 400 clergymen, re-
fused to swear allegiance to William of
Orange, when that prince became
monarch at the invitation OF those
men, who had forced the tyrant James
w oSOA SGAShg AZ dACCs
The Revolution of 1888 was the
triumph of the principle that rulers are
to be tolerated only as long as they are
just; that when they become tyrants
their right to rule ceases at the discre-.
ton of their subjects. Jacobites and
Tories united with high churchmen in
their views as to the sinfulness of
resistance, representing the spirit of
monarchal prerogatiYe rather than the
irresistible tendency toward popular
rule. Bat the sentiment of their day
was opposed to them as is that of orr
day, in more marked degree. II was
not unnatural, therefore, that twenty
years after, in the reign of
Queen Anne, a clergyman, who
mad raneorously attacked the
revolution settlement and asserted
the doctrine of non-resistance sbould
have excited the indignation of the
Commons. The offending divine DR.
was impeached by the
House OF Commons for high crimes and
misdemeanors. 1t became necessary |
for the managers of the impeachment |
to prove that there was resistance in
the revolution, which could not be dis
puted, and to assert the Iawfulness mr.
necessity in great emergencies of taking
arms against the law. "Since we must
give up our right to the laws and liberty
Of this kingdom" said Sir Josenh
Jekyll "or, which is all one, be precar-
Gus in the enjoyment OF them, and
hold them only during pleasure; if this
doctrine of unlimited non-resistance
the Commons have been con-
ent to undertake this prosecution. ]"
The doctrine of unlimited, uncondi-
ional passive obedience, said Mr.. Wal
,ole, was first invented to support j
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a SERIOUS NATTER.

The President said he would give
The memorial his careful consideration.
He recognized that it was a serious
matter to disfranchise any class" This
Is the Associated Press report OF Presi-
dent ClevelSnd's reply to the woman
sufragists who memorialized him to
veto the Edmunds-Tucker bill. How
do the adventurers whose hungry eyes
are fixed on tie plumber they expect
through the operation of the bill ike
the fruit? What do they say now
of the certainty of the bills passsgeP
This is the first intimation that has
come of the Presidents ideas regarding
the bill, and this intimation is entirely
satisfactory to the lovers of republican
government and the admirers OF
justice. II is All inimation that the
President has a higher regard for
The rights ofindividuals than Tucker and
the Congressman whom he turned into
a senseless, thoughtless mob the other
day, It is an intimation that President
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be such; also, that the simple enter
tanning of the belief that unjust laws
may be disregarded, does not disquallfy
him for any Office or right under the
government. Laws should be enforced
a prisoner should not be absolved by
pleading conscience or urging tyranny |;
but when belief becomes barrier be-
fore our courts, and strictly patriotic
belief, does it not seem as-though liberty
is viewed through the distorting lens Of
prejudice?
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NOTICE.

THE SECOND TERM OF TIE SALT
/ Lake Stake Academy viii commence on
January 31st in the Social Hall. To accom-
modate all wishing to patrOnize this inst
tuition as far as possible we have arranged
to accommodate fifty more students, ana
divide the School into two departments,
Fourth and Fifth Readers. This viii ADM.
of special attention being given TO all STU
dents, as all in each department viii be OF sn
equal grade.
Those desiring to send students sAol-N
apply for permits as Soon as possible.
W. B. DOUGALL,
4. E. HYDE,
FRANCIS COPE, 49,.
-, Executive Committee
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III

In the light of precedent, British.
American and universal, in accordance
with the unmistakable canons of logic.
the dictates of conscience and religion
in the interests of the perpetuation Of
free government, we pronounce the
attempts of the Utah judiciary to
assert the doctrine of passive ODE
dience as unreasonable and infamous
Mormon aliens. ready to show past
good character, to swear to their
allegiance to the United States. their
love of its CONSTITUTION, their respect
for nine hundred and ninety-nine
thousand, nine hundred and ninety. nine
OF its laws in every million, are to- be
denied citizenship because they assert a
belief, common to every honest man of
THIS or any other age or country. that
laws are not to be honored, no matter
where they may lead, under The direc-
ton of tyranny, prejudice or foolish
ness. The questions of the Supreme
Court of this Territory, recently pat to
applicants flor admission to the bar
indicate that in Utah liberty has
eobed SO far, that the profession
OF law, as well as the privilege
OF citizenship, are made to depend upon
the profession of principles so despouc
IN their nature that they were repudi-
ated in the early part of the last cen
fury by the House of Lords of the
English Parliament. View it as YOU
may, the fact remains that these courts
ask OF candidates for citizenship and
for the bar remuneration of principle
SO abject that it is inconceiyabIe how
any man can submit to it. They,de- ;
mand that the applicant shall say that. |
under all circumstances, he viii honor |
and obey the law; that be will never |
resist 1t; that he will rem ain passiye;v
obedient to the yoke of oppression.
Our propositions are that The Nor
non IS not rightly chargeabIe with
'elng un-American and unpatriotic be-
.ause be resists law opposed to a
ilVlne command, or what he deems To
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! arDltrarS and deSpotIc power, and was
never promoted or countenanced by
any, government that had not designs
some time or other of making use of it. y
General Stanhope was still more Wig
orous in speech. las to the doctrine
itself of absolute non-resistance. he
said, lit should seem needlesssto prove
by arguments that it is inconsistent
with the law of reason, with the law OF
nature, and with the practice of all
cient to know what The practice of the
Church of England ehas been, when II
found itself oppressed, and, indeed,
of all other churches, of all states, and
of all nations in the world. how they
behaved themselves when they found
their civil and religious constitutions
invaded and oppressed by tyranny. l
believe we may further venture to say
that there is not at this day subsisting
any nation or government ID the world,
whose first original did not receive its
! foundation either from resistance or
compact, and, as to our purpose,
it is equal if the latter be admitted.
+ To urge the municipal laws Of
country in this case is idle. Those
laws were only made for the common
course of things, and can never be un-
derstood to have been designed to de-
feat the end of all laws whatsoever"
Mr.. Lechmers, on the part of the
managers, argued yet more strongly.
The advocates of DR.. SacheverelI by no
means unfurled their banner with equal
boldness; sophlstry and chicanery, re-
sultIng from an effort to justify at
once their client and the revolution,
characterized their addresses; conces-
sions on their part were so numerous,
we are told by an eminent authority,
that they may be said to have aban-
doned all of the general question.
The Lords voted Sacheverell guilty,
and he was lightly sentenced. The
sentence mry be compared to the nom
inal damages sometimes given in a suit
Instituted for the trial of great right,
SAYS the same authority, who pro-
nounces the trial to be of high import
ance in a constitutional light, the
most authentic exposition, the most
ratification of the prin-
ciples upon which the Revolution is to
be defended. This authoritative decIar-
alton of the principle that right is
higher than law has never been dis
puted as fundamental provision of
the English Constitution. Indeed, it
may be said, with Walpole, that the
doctrine is so clearly logical, that only
grants will question it.
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NOTICE,

THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE CO.
L operative Furniture Company will hold
their regular annual meeting Tuesday
February l, 1887, at O'Clock p. m, az tie
company's Office, No. d Main Street for the
election of officers for the ensuing wear. and
for the transaction of such other business as
may come before the meeting.
w. n. WILLIAMS, Sec'y and Treas
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If THERE were any members of ii
Alta Club who entertained lingering
doubt as to whether or not they got
drunk too soon, the Presidents reply
20 theswoman suffragist's dispellei that
doubt and convinced all that the drunk
was decidedly previous"
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LIME AND BUILDING RoOK.

MESSRS. VARLEY & EVERILL HAV.
Ill ing leased the lime kilns known as the
PascOe Lime Kilns, from the Utah
Lime and Cement Company, are prepared to
furnish first class Lime and Building Rock
in any quantity, on the shortest notice.
Office and salesroom No. so South IVES.
Temple Street, North OF HERALD Building.
Telephone Ne. 277.
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The remark of Stanhope that it may
be shown that every government then
existing originated in resistance, or its
equivalent, finds no exception in the
case of the United States. Our patri-
otto ancestors, exercising the inherent
right OF all men to resist tyranny and
oppression, tried in succession argument,
entreaty, petition and open resistance
to law, to convince England of the fatu'
ity Of her colonial policy; and when
every effort having failed resorted to
the further remedy OF an OPP
pressed people. the right of re-
volution. 1t is not without It's
lesson, that this resistance was offered
to the freest government of the earth;
not to an ancient despotism, but to the
England of century ago, then the
foremost constitutional country of the
globe, whose monarch was less power
full than the leader of the Commons; it
was government of the people and for
the people. To ascertain the accepted
doctrine of the people of the United
States on the question of non-resist-
ance, we may search, with great advan-
tage, the history OF our country. There
have been many unpopular laws. which
have encountered the fierce and lawful
opposition Of the people; to these we
shall not refer. except to mention that
their reception indicates the prevailing
conviction that Congress is not neces-
sarily always wise nor always just. We
may find the opinions of individual
States as to resistance of national law.
expressed in the Kentucky and Vir-
ginia Resolutions of 1898, which were
inspired by Thomas Jefferson, then
Vice President. The Legislatures of |
these States declared that when Con-
gress passed acts beyond its Constitu-
tional powers, the States were not
bound to obey, and that each State had
the right to determine the constitution.
atty. These resolutions were the decla-
ration of the extreme States rights"
theory, and were approved, not only
by the two States that originated them,
but by the entire South. They found
practical application in South Carolina
in 1880, in the ordinance multiplying the
tariff acti and subsequently in the Sc
'ession of the Southern States. And
not only did the South entertain the
belief that departure from first prin-
ciples, as they viewed the acts of the
general government, justified resist
snce, but We find that the same view
vas prevalent in New England. The
Hartford convention of 1914, compris
ng delegates from five States, asserted
hat for abuses reduced to a system,
md accumulated through a course of
7ears, clothed in the forms of law"
by an executive and Spreading
corruption everywhere, there q was
ID summary means of relief" :
u, "direct and open resistance;" the s
proposed to amend the !
Constitution, if possible, with the as l
ent of all the States, but, if that was q
then the formation of a new r
Constitution Of so many of the States as o
greed upon the necessity. Thus we
ee both sections of the country uniting Z
4 the proposition that resistance is not b
4 proper cases unjustifable. While it C
] true that the logic of events has dis
!
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NOTICE.

ITO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE
L HERALD Company. There viii be
meeting of the stockholders ofTHE HERALD
Company at the Office of the Company on
Saturday, February 26th, 1857, at IL O'Clock
am, for the. election of officers for the
ensuing year, and for the trans 7ction Of
such other business as may come before tbs
meeting.
ELIAS A. SMITH.
Secretary.
SALT LAKE CITY, January "a, 1s5a.
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DIR. ELLEN B. FERGUSON,
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, NO. Ss4 z,
" Brigham street, Telephone 81.
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SPECIAL NOTICES,
HORSE STRAYEn.

ONE BAY HORSE sTRAYED FROM pv
" per's Barn, Twelfth Ward, Salt Lsta
City, Friday evening, January 28th WITH
blanket on and halter rope trailing In
formation OF his Whereabouts will be grete-
III ly received by VIM. NJ Stewart No n
Fourth East Street ~
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TO LEASE

THE NORTH STORE IN THE HERALD
i Building, formerly used as a Restaurant.
Apply at once at this office.
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MONEY TO LOAN

n E. POMERoY, BROKER AND REAL
W. Estate Agent, 15S Main Street. Money
to Loan, Houses and Lots for Sale, and
general real estate business transacted.
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THE OLD Dominion Steamship Com
pany has taken the proper course for
dealin e with the strikers. It has caused
the arrest of the leader, charging him
with conspiracy to destroy its business,
and laid its damages at $4,000. The
other day a Connecticut Court held
a couple of railway supe1intend-
ents who had blacklisted man,
guilty of conspiracy, and fined
them. If it is a crime to black
list laborer, and thus prevent him.
from selling his labor, it is wrong to
prevent an employer hiring workmen or
carrying on his business
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BLANK ROOKS

q V.FOHLIN HAS ON HAND ALARGE
iLs lot OF Blank Books, with first class
linen ledger psper, and boand with new
and improved style of binding, which be
cfters at very low prices. Blank Books
ruled and bound to order, in any pattern.
Call AID examine prices and workmanihiD.
E. V. F0HLIN.
% S. Main Street, opposite Z. G.. N. l.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-25
SENATOR INGALLS, DEAD SERVANT

Those who have visited Senator ingalls,
hcmc, at any time within the last dozen
years, will recall the presence of colored
man whom the senator always pleasantly
addressed az Pendle:on. PendletOn was
the genius of the place in some respects
and took all the interest In the senator s
home and comforts that the senator could
himself. 1t seems that the kind and faith
full old man is dead. From the A.chison
Champion we clip the following:
On Sunday last at Oak Hill cemetery,
beside the open grave Of an obscure colored
citizen. was witnessed scene without
parallel in the history Of this or any
other country. Senator ingalls,, president
Of the senate of the United States, stand
ing with uncovered head, delivering p
beautiful tribute to the character and worth
OF his old and faithful family servant,
Tarleton Pendleton The speaker spoke
as one who speaks Of departed and cher
ished friend, and, for the time being, the
senator lost sight OF everything but his old
servant, the trusty domestic whose labors
were ut an end, and whose rare fidelity in
spired the choice uttcrances of the hour.
The unigueness of the occasion will never
be forgotten by those who were present,
and it seems to illustrate the fact that this
is a land where the highest may stoop to
bear tribute 10 the virtues Of the Ohscurest
and to gain and not lose prestige by the
graceful cOndecenSiOn
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-25
THE JUDsON UNIVERSITY.

An Ottawa paper, or rather four men
through its columns, turn summersets over
the proposition to establish Baptist uni
versity at Wichita. They abuse Rev.
Harper uns.intedly and denomipaie his ad
dress published in the EAGLE as "culpa-
BILE oratorical extravaganza or positive falls
hood" Its no use kicking gentlemen. Its
too late. The thing is did and in big way.
Your little one-horse concern which was
born in iniquisy and covered all over with
charges of corruption in its earlier
years and plastered with dark
hints and loaded down with distrust at the
last may exist, but not live. The Judson
University will by its power and grandeur
not only win over every Kansas Baptist
who loves his denomination, but attract the
support and Command the sympathy of
leading Baptists throughout the land. The
truth is the Judson ia fixed and provided
for and is asking nor begging any odds.
As for Rev w F. Harper he has the con-
fidence of our people, az be has Of every
body who knows him, which cannot be
said of some of the men who have been
connected ii a prominent way with the
Ottawa school.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-25
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CALLING A HALT,

Several leading papers, all at once, have
opened their eyes 10 the fact that its an un-
clean bird that bfouls its own nest, and
In apparent carnestness are now deprecia
ting the policy of sncering and prophesy-
Ing hard things, so constantly INDUCED in
by many papers, against Wichita. That is
all right, boys. Had many Of you been
pounded as much and from rs many quar-
ters as has the EAGLE, and by those who,
nine out of ten, have since adopted not
only the EAGLES views touching the fu-
ture of Kansas. but 10y those who have ap
propriated our methods and even our Ian
guage to bring their own localities
into notice, you might have a keener reali-
cation of the canabaistic disposition of dog
cat dog which has so sbundantly and
pcrsistently animated the gall OF the envi
GUS breasts alluded to. The sweet morsels
these have rolled under their tongues, of
the EAGLE is all blow and gas and Wichita
but bubble and mushroom, and all in
the face of our clearing house reports. our
phenomenal growth and wonderful activity
in real estate, ceased TO hurt long since, or
to even attract our attention. And now
that We are superior TO it all the indications
OF "Iet up" interests but little.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-25
CLEARWATER.

TO tie Edirr of the Easle.
"A city set upon hill cannot be hid. :"
Neither can our city be hid. But Clear
water may stand still and even 20 back
while Wichita and many other railroad
centers are on the most wonderful boom
known in the history of modern times.
But when the boon cones 10 al end, as il
must, and the country gives the laborers
an abundant harvest, then the small towns
surrounding your city will he terminated
into life aud second lease Of life will be
the result. When a city like ours, located
the mids of the most fertile valley of
Kansas, and having every clement within
itself to live, grow and prosper. with two
of the best railroads passing through it and
others sure 10 come. | say. how can 1t
escape the attention of those who
&C ire 10 invest their money.
IN its lots OF in he finest farms that can be
found. We have no need or desire 10 dis
courage those who are building up Nich-
ita. but rather desire them the atuada, {
success which is GROWING their every .il
fort. for city like ours So near one of
such magnitude as yours is destined to be,
viii lie source Of pride to US and will be
near 20 enhance the value 10, only of our
lots, but Of the real estate all over the
county. ! have been an interested observ
er of the Improvements of this city from
the start. and while l have never though,
,hs, il would be great town. We, | knew
{: was The hcalthies, town In Kansas, has
the pures, wair-, tie best Of school and
church privileges snd also one Of the bes,
shipping points for grain and stock to be
found IN southwest Kansas.
So. dear reader. Yet re repeat that q CITY
sci upon Hill. IS ours IL. csnnot te lost
sfstt Of. II must emo 10 the f!pnt AMI
he numbered among the most desirable
towns IN Nhich Ia live N The state. Now
let nee SAY 10 he strangers, cone and 20
II. VIE will do You g>oa ATPHA.
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THE MISSOURI STANDARD.

"a Great Biz Man from Missouri" is
lawfully of" in bis criticism appearing
elsewhere. His praise Of &C." is all il
proper place. and if his communication
had ended with her we would have said
nothing. The one signed Beth, +" in verse
whose sex he seems to question, was writ
ten by lady, very quiet and reserved
lady, however, but whose heart is as warn
as it is gentle, and whose verses were as
pregpsnt. in our humble Judgment, OF
lofty ideals and pure sentiment as can.
generally speaking. be found in limited
space, not even excepting the brilliant
papers Of the classical land Of Missouri.
The author is not only lady. but wife
and mother. still one who is unknown to
the life Of the members of the quasi-politi-
cal organizations in this city controlled
bv the more aspiring Of her Own
sex. And that is not all, she
is to the manor born, having previous to
her marriage been a Wichita maid, and il
therefore in q limited sense, at least, the
recipient of the exalted influences which
have made this country and IFS civilization
preferable to all others-if we except Mis-
souri,. As for the versifcation, We make
no claims to being a judge, but the typo
graphical errors and some of the blundere
o. rytbm and rhyme wee not "Beths.
the copy having gone on late and the proof
having gone uncorrected.
"a Great Big Man from Missouri. may,
II be thinks he would enjoy the process,
spread himself on the roughly cut gem
who presides over these columns but We
beg to inform him in the meantime that,
If he remains in these benighted precincts
long enough. he will find hosts OF women
here whose lives are full Of sentiment,
truth ard poetry, yet who make no pre'en-
sions to versifying-at least up TO the Mis-
souri, standard.